SPLC 2025

Our General Chair and master of ceremonies closes #SPLC2025, passing the torch to Gilles Perrouin!
It was a pleasure having you all in A Coruña, Spain ❤️💛❤️
Wishing everyone a safe trip home —see you next year @ VARIABILITY 2026 in Limassol, Cyprus! 🇨🇾

David Romero Organvídez is in charge of closing the last edition of SPLC with the research paper "Feedback analysis in software product line forked developments"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

Maider Azanza is our second to last presenter! She takes the stage with the industrial paper "Managing Variability in Software Onboarding Roadmaps: An Industrial Case Study"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

José Manuel Sánchez Ruiz takes the stage again to present the research paper "Feature-Based Characterization of GitHub OSS Projects for Performance Assessment"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

We also celebrated the quality of contributions this year, and Best Paper Award went to:
“Software Variability as a New Dimension of Computational Thinking: an Exploration” by Moreno-León et al. Congratulations to the authors! 🎉
🔗https://doi.org/10.1145/3744915.3748459

Oscar Díaz opens our last session on Feature Usage and Feedback, with the Journal-First paper "How can feature usage be tracked across product variants? Implicit Feedback in Software Product Lines"
🔗Proceedings: doi.org/10.1145/3744...
🔗Original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

This year the Best Artifact Award at #SPLC2025 went to: "Investigating the Effects of T-Wise Interaction Sampling for Vulnerability Discovery in Highly-Configurable Software Systems" by Bächle et al.
Congratulations to the authors! 🎉
🔗https://doi.org/10.1145/3744915.3748462

A huge thank you to all our reviewers for their hard work and dedication in providing timely and constructive reviews that made #SPLC2025 possible!
Special congratulations to our Best Reviewers, Maurice ter Beek and Barbara Gallina
Your commitment strengthens our community!

Gala Dinner gave us the opportunity to thank our keynote speakers, Wesley K.G.Assunção, Meike Klettke, and Marsha Chechik, PC chairs, and organizing committee, led by @miguelluaces.bsky.social, for their hard work and dedication 🙌
SPLC 2025 would have been possible without all of you!

Ferdinand Auerswald presents the research paper "Simplified Extensibility in the Universal Variability Language using Answer Set Programming"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

✨ Last night we had the chance to enjoy a wonderful guided tour through Santiago de Compostela, followed by our gala dinner at Pazo de Vilaboa
A perfect evening to celebrate our community spirit and share unforgettable moments together. Cheers to the last #SPLC2025!🍷

Youenn Merel-Jourdan presents the research paper "In the Search for Truth: Navigating Variability in Neuroimaging Software Pipelines"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

José Manuel Sánchez presents the industrial paper "Optimizing Competitive Positioning through Software Product Lines: An Industrial Application in Digital Marketing"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

Robert Müller opens our second to last session on Optimization and Search Strategies with their research paper "Finding Optimal Configurations of Cardinality-based Feature Models using Weighted Automata"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

🌅 The last day of #SPLC2025 is sadly starting!

Today we will have two final sessions before we wrap up with the closing ceremony at 12:00.

It has been a pleasure having you all here in A Coruña 💙 —we hope you enjoyed your stay as much as we enjoyed welcoming you! #SPLC2025

Congratulations to Hitachi Ltd., proposed by Kentaro Yoshimura, for becoming a new member of the SPLC Hall of Fame! 🏆
This recognition highlights the outstanding relevance and impact of the Hitachi SPLE Adoption Framework and its product lines
#SPLC2025 #HallOfFame #SPLE

Birte Friesel closes our 5th session with the research paper "Understanding Product Line Runtime Performance with Behaviour Models and Regression Model Trees"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

Marco Wijaya presents the research paper "Performance Prediction of Cyber-Physical Systems Product Lines in Dynamic Environements"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

Meike Klettke from the University of Regensburg enlightened us about how variability is (not) handled in databases and which role it plays in data evolution.

Thanks a lot for broaden the horizons of our community🤩!

Nada Zine is presenting the research paper "LLM-based Co-Evolution of Configurable Software Systems"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

Noelia Lopez-Duran presents the research paper "Configuration bugs classification using LLMs and encoders"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

SPLC2025 Session 5 – Machine Learning and LLMs is now underway!

We kick off with Mathis Weiß presenting the research paper "Automated Learning of Software Configuration Spaces is not Easy"
🔗Full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

Yesterday we had a heartwarming reception at the A Coruña City Council. The event was hosted by our General Chair @miguelluaces.bsky.social, the Rector of @udc.gal Ricardo Cao, and the Councilor. A big thanks to the @concellodacoruna.bsky.social for their support in making #SPLC2025 a success!

We continue #SPLC2025 with a keynote by Marsha Chechik from University of Tortonto (@UofT, Canada)
Her talk: "Assuring Product Lines of Complex Systems" dives into the challenges and methods to ensure reliability in highly complex product line environments.

📢Big news from the #SPLC2025 Town Hall!
This was the last SPLC Town Hall as we know it — starting next year, we join forces with VAMOS and ICSR to build a bigger community: VARIABILITY 2026 🎉

📍 See you in Limassol, Cyprus!
Join us @ #VARIABILITY2026!

Day 4 of #SPLC2025 is starting!

We begin with the Town Hall, featuring a very important announcement — you don’t want to miss this! 👀

📌 Find the complete schedule pinned on our profile or at
2025.splc.net/main-confere...

Aleksandar S. Dimovski closes Session 3 with his research paper “On Synthesizing Presence Conditions in Numerical Software Product Lines”
🔗Check full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

Xhevahire Tërnava presents the research paper "On the Effect of Feature Reduction on Energy Consumption: An Exploratory Study"
🔗Check full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

Francisco Sebastian Benitez presents the industrial paper "AquaIA : Implementing Controlled Deficit Irrigation by means of Feature Modelling Techniques"
🔗Check full paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...

Analysing Self-Adaptive Systems as Software Product Lines | Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume A

- 1st paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...
- original doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.js...
- 2nd paper: doi.org/10.1145/3744...
- original doi: doi.org/10.1145/3709...